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Am I the only person on earth who wasn't wowed by 'Walk the Line' and 'Brokeback Mountain'?

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MrsMerryBunnyGirlHenry · 08/04/2009 20:57

DH and I watched most of it on Sunday night. We're probably about 15 mins from the end but went to bed and haven't watched the rest since. Granted we've been busy and haven't had a night in together since Sunday but we're in no great hurry to find out how it ends.

Don't get me wrong, I liked it, but I just didn't think it was the 'great film' that everyone was raving about. I thought Joaquim was really good, and Reece was pretty good too (though not Oscar-worthy IMO). But it just felt like, as DH put it 'a good biopic' but nothing extraordinary.

On that score I was even less impressed with Brokeback Mountain. I didn't think the relationship between the two men was convincing and I thought the film was pretty ordinary (apart from Michelle Williams as Ledger's ex-wife - a phenomenal performance in a teeny-weeny role).

I've seen some extraordinary films over the years - Dancer in the Dark, La Haine, Le Diner de Cons (I could go on) - all of which moved me enormously and I would gladly watch again if I haven't already (perhaps not Dancer - far too emotionally harrowing at the end). But it bemuses me that films which, by comparison with these three, are pretty pedestrian, should receive such grand acclaim.

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mum2samandalex · 08/04/2009 21:01

hated 'Bokeback mountain' but loved 'walk the line'

Katisha · 08/04/2009 21:02

Hated Brokeback Mountain, largely because I couldn't a word of it.

LackaDAISYcal · 08/04/2009 21:03

Loved Walk the Line, but thought Brokeback Mountain was one of the most dire and strained films I've ever seen....truly awful.

LackaDAISYcal · 08/04/2009 21:04

couldn't hear or understand or both katisha?

I felt like shouting "offs, speak up man" at Heath Ledger's mumbling throughout.

trixymalixy · 08/04/2009 21:08

I liked walk the line, but thought brokeback mountain was pretty dull

MrsMerryBunnyGirlHenry · 08/04/2009 21:12

Oh, yeah, I'd forgotten about the mumbling Ledger. Still, apart from that his acting wasn't anywhere near as toe-curling as Gyllenhall's. Fab sister, clearly she got all the acting genes.

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ShowOfHands · 08/04/2009 21:16

I love them both.

Brokeback Mountain is heartbreakingly beautiful.

Katisha · 08/04/2009 21:23

Sorry - couldn't HEAR a word.Tried it with subtitles but didn't really help...

mablemurple · 08/04/2009 21:26

Brokeback Mountain is heartbreakingly crap - Heath Ledger bases his character entirely on Ted, of Ted and Ralph from the Fast Show. Walk the Line, on the other hand, was good.

theyoungvisiter · 08/04/2009 21:27

I loved both. Sorry!

I loved the book of Brokeback too so quite rare to enjoy the film as well (for me at least). Although they are both FAR too good looking in the film (in the book the Jake Gyllenhaal character has dodgy teeth and is ratty looking, iirc)

MrsMerryBunnyGirlHenry · 08/04/2009 22:14

PMSL at Fast Show comment!

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FairyTaleEnding · 08/04/2009 22:23

I thought Walk the Line was unbelievably tedious - as you say, a reasonable biopic but really not Oscar-worthy. So they sang their own songs, so what?! Can't remember a thing about it.

Brokeback Mountain, on the other hand, made me cry my eyes out. I thought it was beautifully written and directed, subtle and moving.

FairyTaleEnding · 10/04/2009 12:45

Threadkiller

Just wanted to use the psychobunny ....

Flamesparrow · 10/04/2009 12:47

Walk the line I loved and I had no interest in Cash.

Brokeback didn't do it for me though (and I love Heath).

roisin · 10/04/2009 12:58

I didn't see Brokeback for ages and ages - missed it at the cinema. I couldn't wait to see it. And when we finally got hold of the DVD it was a huge disappointment, a real let-down for me.

MrsMerryBunnyGirlHenry · 11/04/2009 21:14

Well, DS and I have just sat down to watch the end of Walk The Line, which we started a week ago...and it turns out we were 30 seconds from the end!

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fruitbeard · 12/04/2009 22:04

Saw Brokeback at the cinema and the film broke down during the crucial scene - and came back working missing some 20 seconds of dialogue - so I have to say the dramatic tension was lost on me and I didn't find it that affecting.

Plus I thought Heath Ledger was channelling John Wayne's speech pattens and could barely understand him (although now I can see it was of course Ted from The Fast Show - thanks Maplemurple!)

Having grown up being forced to listen to my dad's extensive Johnny Cash collection, I gave Walk the Line a miss... bought my dad the DVD of it, he didn't like it, so given his extreme fandom of the man in black, I have to assume it wasn't all that...

Frillysocks · 12/04/2009 22:10

Brokeback was billed as a sensitive romance etc but in effect it was about the sex. IMO. Not the luurve.

And as for the "I cain't QUIT you" line... ew ew ew!! Toes curl!

ScummyMummy · 12/04/2009 22:12

Brokeback = dreadful
Walk the line = pretty good

imo

Frillysocks · 12/04/2009 22:12

Other film that memorably left me cold was Lord of the Yawns Rings.

Springfleurs · 15/04/2009 11:39

I loved Brokeback Mountain but have failed three times to watch Walk the Line, just found it incredibly dull and couldn't get into it.

Am no fan of biopics though it has to be said. I am of the "How the hell do YOU know Mr Film Director, Producer, Writer etc" school of thought. I hate the added drama in order to make the film sell.

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